I am a Burmese exile taking a near-permanent refuge in New York and Sydney. Here are my essays about Burma and anything else I feel like writing about. And posting the articles I like from selected sites. Bridging Burma to the world this Blog is more of a Politically-Oriented Literary Blog than a Plain News Blog or a Sophisticated Thoughts Blog.

Saturday, May 2, 2015

Burmese Army Denouncing The Government As Weak

(Translation of the critical
post from MYANMAR-ARMED-FORCES Facebook page.)

Our army is decisively annihilating the
China-backed Kokang insurgents in previously-peaceful Kokang self-administered
region. In every aspect of the still-ongoing war, especially the actions of
frontline forces and reserve troops and re-supply activities, we find the
army’s strategic and tactical responses to the massive invasion financed by
China and manned by Chinese mercenaries (including a PLA general) pleasingly
satisfactory.

But we find the actions of our so-called civilian government shamefully
inadequate and hopelessly weak. Our Union of Burma is a union consisting of 7
states, 7 divisions, 1 union territory, 5 self-administered regions, and 1
self-administered division. Kokang Region is one of five self-administered
regions and right now because of China-led invasion the whole Kokang Government
led by Pae-Sout-Chain has fled and been hiding in a safe place.

Kokang Government has collapsed and the
region has been under martial law for a while now. Situation is so bad our army
is the only institution maintaining law and order in the region as the union
government has transferred its authorities completely to the army. The
situation basically is the clear result of the fundamental violation of our sovereignty
by China.

But what has our government been doing?
Nothing decisive, clearly! They do not even explain to our people what has been
going on in the Kokang border land. In our opinion the president should come
out and declare war on the China-backed Kokang insurgents. But the government
would not even make a press briefing let alone a strong response to the Chinese
aggressors.

Why Was Our Army Forced To Handle The Media Issue?

Our army is the only one making press
briefings and issuing strong responses to the situation while our government is
basically sitting on the sideline twiddling their thumbs, why? In our opinion
Pae-Sout-Chain’s Kokang Government should regularly brief the press while our
president himself should deliver a strong patriotic speech to the nation
immediately.

From the beginning of Kokang War we
soldiers had to call press conferences and strongly respond to the foreign
invasion since our government has refused to do so. What our government seems
to be doing is they will nicely go back in to Kokang land with their
administrative bureaucracy only after us soldiers bring back the peace
sacrificing our limbs and lives.

Will 2015 General Elections Be Postponed?

The crucial 2015 General Elections are
just round the corner. But Kokang land is still a war-torn battlefield and most
towns and villages there are still empty of their normal civilian populations.
We don’t believe elections are possible there if this struggle continues on.

Can we re-establish the regional
administration in Kokang land in time for coming elections? Even if the law and
order is restored by our army will Pae-Sout-Chain’s government be dare to come
back to the capital city Lout-Kai considering that he and Phoe-Kyar-Shin the
insurgent leader are sworn enemies for life?

Will people of Kokang now taking refuge
in neighbouring regions and some even in China come back to their homes? Will
Lout-Kai ever regain her previous reputation as a small heaven of
forever-troubled North-Eastern Burma? These are the challenges being faced by
our government and also the serious questions asked by the people of Burma.

Our Timid Government Does Not Even Protest To China!

Just by looking at our government’s
timid reactions on the situation we have serious doubt that they are ready to
face these challenges head on. Government stated that the Kokang rebels had
sneaked into Lout-Kai area from China. That statement was false as more than
5,000 strong Chinese mercenary forces did not just quietly walk through the
border, but they were transported to Lout-Kai loudly by convoys of Chinese
cargo trucks.

Chinese government officials knew the
whole thing even well before the invasion started as they were the ones
facilitating the whole bloody thing. They could still claim they didn’t know
the initial infiltration by Kokang insurgents, but they could not still claim
not knowing the retreat or withdrawal of thousands of Chinese mercenaries back
into China.

Because by then, after the devastating battles at Lout-Kai and Lone-Htan
and I-San, PLA has stationed a massive armoured division on the short Kokang
borderline and the fleeing insurgents (PLA mercenaries) had to be basically
trucked through armed Chinese soldiers their brothers-in-arms and comrades.

By then the PLA men were so pumped-up
by the severe casualties of their Chinese comrades inflicted by Burmese army if
any Burmese army troops approached within 500 meters of the borderline they
yelled at our soldiers through their massive loud speakers. And the Chinese bastards were still claiming that they didn’t see
any insurgents crisscrossing the borderline.

The answer is very simple. The Chinese
are financing and manning the massive invasion for their own political
advantage over Burma. But what our government did was cowardly and shameful.
Instead of strongly protesting against Chinese invasion they even had to
apologize for what army had allegedly done across the border after a
supposedly-Burmese bomb landed in China and killed some Chinamen.

Without a single official complaint
from Burmese Government the brazen Chinese even sent Chinese mercenaries in
Kokang MNDAA uniforms as massive reinforcement right across the border in the
middle of Burmese army offensive on the Hill Point-2202. Our boys were already
right at the half-way towards the peak when hundreds and hundreds of Chinese
mercenaries coming across the Chinese border overwhelmed them from behind.

No wonder we lost hundreds of our boys from
LID-33 on that hill. We blame our timid government for all those deaths since
if ever they loudly protest to China not to harbour Kokang insurgents from the
very beginning of the invasion that second wave of Chinese attack would not
happen.

How Do They Get Latest Chinese Guns With Plenty Of Ammo?

Another serious question is who has
been providing the Kokang insurgents and their Chinese mercenaries with latest
Chinese guns especially the deadly sniper rifles?

Thousands and thousands of latest
Chinese-made Type-81 Automatic-Assault-Rifles and hundreds and hundreds of Type-67 Heavy-Machine-Guns and latest QBU-10
Sniper-Rifles with millions and millions of their assorted rounds, all worth
nearly one billion US$, were brutally used against our patriotic boys in green.

We do honestly believe that all those guns and ammo came right out of
PLA warehouses since in tightly-controlled Communist China even getting a hand
gun is totally impossible without the consents of authorities. That’s the
reason all those blood-thirsty Muslim Uyghur terrorists attacking Han-Chinese all
over China were using homemade swords and kitchen knives. They would have
preferred AK-47s like their Muslim terrorist brothers all over the world.

The reliable intelligence are pointing at the fact that Yunan-Based PLA
units sold the guns and ammo worth one billion US$ to Kokang insurgents and the
payment was Kokang insurgents’ heroin and Yabas and other illicit drugs worth
nearly one billion US$ on the border.

Then there is the visible flow of
hundreds and hundreds of wounded and injured Kokang insurgents and Chinese
mercenaries back into China to get a medical treatment at Chinese government
hospitals near the border. We the army publicly announced the fact that the Hill
Point-2202 battle alone sent truck-loads of more than five hundred wounded
Chinese back across the border to Nant-Sam Hospital in China.

Chinese government said they were not
aware of any wounded getting treatment at Chinese hospitals by the border.
Shouldn’t our government be protesting against Chinese government’s brazen
support of insurgents across the border from neighbouring Burma?

We Should Protest Against China Harbouring Phoe-Kyar-Shin

Our government should be repeatedly
protesting against Chinese letting the fugitives like Phone-Kyar-Shin freely
doing their illicit businesses in China. While bloody Chinese are giving
trouble to any nation letting that old monk Dalai Lama visit there, we don’t even
dare to protest against them openly harbouring insurgents and drug traffickers
from our country.

When Thailand had been harbouring all kinds
of ethnic insurgents and drug traffickers from our country the successive military
governments were loudly and constantly complaining to Thai government. But now
China is harbouring bad people from our Burma and our government do not even
dare to raise their voice.

We would love to say to our fallen
comrades that they rightfully sacrificed their lives for their nation and
people. But with what our government has been timidly doing we are not able to
say that to them, sadly.

(Blogger’s Notes: I have a
suspicion that China is deliberately supporting Kokang insurgency to de-stabilize
political situation in Burma. With a lot of pundits both domestic and foreign
now saying ASSK’s NLD will win the 2015 General Elections and form next
government Chinese are really concerned with that eventual outcome.

Another theory floating around in Burma is that Chinese are spending a
billion dollars financing the Kokang invasion just to give an excuse to Burmese
Army to stage a coup against Thein Sein Government just before the elections,
for an inward-looking military government will be for China’s benefits not the west-supported
ASSK government in Burma.)